ON LEECH LAKE, Minn. -- Jack Shriver's boat pitched and rolled on the waves of Leech Lake on a recent Wednesday morning. A cold wind blew from the northeast, numbing our rod-holding hands.

Wind is a critical element of successful walleye fishing on Leech Lake, and a calm day can kill a good bite, so we kept our eyes on the sky, praying a few small storm cells would keep the water ...

As we head into the fall fishing season the bite for everything gets better and better. Some leaves on the trees are turning ...

BEMIDJI — Leech Lake anglers will be able to keep a wider size range of walleye starting on the 2019 fishing opener, officials announced Monday. “Walleye abundance in Leech Lake is currently … ...

Ask any walleye nut and they’ll tell you there’s lots to love about these popular game fish—and loads of reasons to learn how to catch walleye. First, walleyes are widely distributed across ...

Walleye fishing was slowly dying on Leech, the guide warned before the outing. The lake was stocked with walleyes earlier that year, but it would be years before those stocked fish would make an ...

LEECH LAKE — Opening day of the Minnesota fishing season on Leech Lake arrived Saturday, cloudless and with nary a breath of wind. It was the nice weather one might expect all winter-weary ...

Angling pressure on Leech totaled 785,000 hours last summer, the highest in 10 years. It's nearly double the fishing pressure from 2005, when the DNR tallied 430,000 angling hours.

A proposal to allow anglers on Leech Lake in northwestern Minnesota more opportunity to keep walleye starting in 2019 will be up for consideration by the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources.

ON LEECH LAKE, Minn. — Walleye fishing Minnesota style was on display Saturday as if staged for a Broadway production. Against a sliver of the day’s first light, a cruel northeast wind rolled ...

The Minnesota Department of Natural Resources is considering a plan to allow anglers on Leech Lake to keep more walleyes starting in 2019. The DNR says the big lake has now fully recovered from a ...

BEMIDJI, Minn. — Leech Lake anglers will be able to keep a wider size range of walleye starting on the 2019 fishing opener, officials announced Monday, Dec. 10. “Walleye abundance in Leech ...